The Logic Theorist
Contributor
Being a novice diver, I sometimes pay attention to what people around me are doing to try to find cues for things that weren't taught in courses. On my last boat trip, I noticed no one else was suiting up with a snorkel attached to their mask. I thought about it, and our instructions for entering and exiting the water were to keep the reg in from the time we strode off the boat until the time we were back on the platform with our fins removed. So, I figured people weren't taking them as they weren't going to be used at all in the dive.
I thought maybe this was unique to this boat or to boat diving in general, but then I saw some people posting things about snorkels being for newbies.
But I also thought about what would have happened on my boat dive if I had somehow lost the line and had to free ascend, due to one of the 2 million OMG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE disaster scenarios and had to wait for the boat to pick me up, and realized that had I been LOA or otherwise had to wait a long time, being without a snorkel would have been a pain in the *** at best, and a potential problem in really choppy seas.
So, do you still bring one? Only on certain dives? Why or why not?
I thought maybe this was unique to this boat or to boat diving in general, but then I saw some people posting things about snorkels being for newbies.
But I also thought about what would have happened on my boat dive if I had somehow lost the line and had to free ascend, due to one of the 2 million OMG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE disaster scenarios and had to wait for the boat to pick me up, and realized that had I been LOA or otherwise had to wait a long time, being without a snorkel would have been a pain in the *** at best, and a potential problem in really choppy seas.
So, do you still bring one? Only on certain dives? Why or why not?